Planet Action - The Projects

This semester I am supervising a small, but dedicated group of students who are applying their expertise in remote sensing to work on three projects supported by Planet Action.  Thanks to the eCognition software provided by Trimble Geospatial and satellite imagery provided Spot Image the students get to work with cutting edge technology.

We are working with collaborators from France, Mexico, and Columbia on the following projects:

• Mountainous land use and land cover mapping in the French Pyrenees to support the monitoring of human-nature interactions in the Haut-Vicdessos mountain area.  This project is in collaboration with Thomas Houet from the GEODE Research Laboratory, University of Toulouse.
• Mapping mangrove forests in the Bocas del Atrato Region of Colombia to support REDD policies.
• Forest quality assessment in the mountains west of Mexico City to support ecological restoration.